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Place

Cair Paravel

Also known as Cair Paravel castle

The royal castle on Narnia’s eastern coast. It is the seat of the Pevensies during the Golden Age and is rebuilt in the reign of Caspian X.

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In the chronicles

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe10 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 12…e we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea. And you--you have come from the wild woods of the west?"Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 49…e only a statue of a Faun in her horrible house until the four thrones at Cair Paravel are filled--and goodness knows when that will happen, or whether it will ever happen at all."Open passage →
  3. Chapter VI · paragraph 37…reason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, etc., also of comforting her said Majesty's enemies, harbouring spies and fratern…Open passage →
  4. Chapter VIII · paragraph 34When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone Sits at Cair Paravel in throne, The evil time will be over and done.Open passage →
  5. Chapter VIII · paragraph 43"Because of another prophecy," said Mr. Beaver. "Down at Cair Paravel--that's the castle on the sea coast down at the mouth of this river which ought to be the capital of the whole …Open passage →
  6. Chapter XII · paragraph 26"That, O Man," said Aslan, "is Cair Paravel of the four thrones, in one of which you must sit as King. I show it to you because you are the first-born and …Open passage →
  7. Chapter XIII · paragraph 5"Four thrones in Cair Paravel," said the Witch. "How if only three were filled? That would not fulfil the prophecy."Open passage →
  8. Chapter XV · paragraph 21… Then at last, as they stood for a moment looking out towards the sea and Cair Paravel (which they could now just make out) the red turned to gold along the line where the sea and the sky met and ve…Open passage →
  9. Chapter XVII · paragraph 15…r that, at about tea-time, they actually reached the mouth. The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water…Open passage →
  10. Chapter XVII · paragraph 16… their toes. But next day was more solemn. For then, in the Great Hall of Cair Paravel--that wonderful hall with the ivory roof and the west door all hung with peacock's feathers and the eastern doo…Open passage →
The Horse and His Boy9 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 47…nia to treat of this marriage, and later when the Prince was our guest at Cair Paravel, it was a wonder to me that ever you could find it in your heart to show him so much favour."Open passage →
  2. Chapter V · paragraph 12…ot them out, gobble them up. When first he suffered the Prince to come to Cair Paravel as your lover, sister, it may be that he was only seeking an occasion against us. Most likely he hopes to make …Open passage →
  3. Chapter V · paragraph 23…all this," said Susan, bursting into tears. "Oh, if only I had never left Cair Paravel. Our last happy day was before those ambassadors came from Calormen. The Moles were planting an orchard for us …Open passage →
  4. Chapter VIII · paragraph 24…Then I will ride through the pass above Anvard and down through Narnia to Cair Paravel. The High King will not be there; when I left them he was already preparing a raid against the giants on his no…Open passage →
  5. Chapter VIII · paragraph 27"And how if the Splendour Hyaline is at Cair Paravel before you?"Open passage →
  6. Chapter XI · paragraph 30…will send us a happier hour and then you must leave nothing alive between Cair Paravel and the Western Waste. But we are not yet in Narnia. Here in Archenland it is another thing. In the assault on …Open passage →
  7. Chapter XII · paragraph 19…e when the Witch and the Winter had gone and Peter the High King ruled at Cair Paravel, the smaller woodland people of Narnia were so safe and happy that they were getting a little careless.Open passage →
  8. Chapter XII · paragraph 21…e all standing still, chattering? Enemies at Anvard! News must be sent to Cair Paravel at once. The army must be called out. Narnia must go to the aid of King Lune."Open passage →
  9. Chapter XIII · paragraph 4"At Cair Paravel," said Corin. "She's not like Lucy, you know, who's as good as a man, or at any rate as good as a boy. Queen Su…Open passage →
Prince Caspian12 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 10"In our castle of Cair Paravel," continued Susan in a dreamy and rather sing-song voice, "at the mouth of the great river of Narnia. How could…Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 11"How it all comes back!" said Lucy. "We could pretend we were in Cair Paravel now. This hall must have been very like the great hall we feasted in."Open passage →
  3. Chapter III · paragraph 11…r ago since we left Narnia but everything looks as if no one had lived in Cair Paravel for hundreds of years? Well, don't you see? You know that, however long we seemed to have lived in Narnia, when…Open passage →
  4. Chapter III · paragraph 14…ot it. In that sense it really was hundreds of years ago that we lived in Cair Paravel. And now we're coming back to Narnia just as if we were Crusaders or Anglo-Saxons or Ancient Britons or someone…Open passage →
  5. Chapter IV · paragraph 71… Kings and Queens of Narnia by Aslan himself, they lived in the castle of Cair Paravel. No man alive has seen that blessed place and perhaps even the ruins of it have now vanished. But we believe it…Open passage →
  6. Chapter V · paragraph 68…n't forget. I believe in the High King Peter and the rest that reigned at Cair Paravel, as firmly as I believe in Aslan himself."Open passage →
  7. Chapter VII · paragraph 33…y have let the great woods grow up. If traditions speak true, the ancient Cair Paravel was at the river-mouth. All that part is friendly to us and hateful to our enemies. We must go to Aslan's How."Open passage →
  8. Chapter VII · paragraph 51…records tell. The other is down at the river-mouth, where their castle of Cair Paravel once stood. And if Aslan himself comes, that would be the best place for meeting him too, for every story says …Open passage →
  9. Chapter VIII · paragraph 1…is story to the four children, sitting on the grass in the ruined hall of Cair Paravel)--"and so I put a crust or two in my pocket, left behind all weapons but my dagger, and took to the woods in th…Open passage →
  10. Chapter VIII · paragraph 68…of the Creek) and went down to the boat. The children were sorry to leave Cair Paravel, which, even in ruins, had begun to feel like home again.Open passage →
  11. Chapter XIII · paragraph 12…gh King over all Kings in Narnia, Emperor of the Lone Islands and Lord of Cair Paravel, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion, to Miraz, Son of Caspian the Eighth, sometime Lord Protector of Na…Open passage →
  12. Chapter XV · paragraph 5…e, under us and under the High King, you shall be King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel and Emperor of the Lone Islands. You and your heirs while your race lasts. And your coronation--but what have w…Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader9 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 26… laying his finger on it. "Or was at noon to-day. We had a fair wind from Cair Paravel and stood a little north for Galma, which we made on the next day. We were in port for a week, for the Duke of …Open passage →
  2. Chapter III · paragraph 68…ttle that I am Caspian the son of Caspian, lawful king of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Emperor of the Lone Islands."Open passage →
  3. Chapter XI · paragraph 7…ore sunset I must visit Trumpkin the Dwarf where he sits in the castle of Cair Paravel counting the days till his master Caspian comes home. I will tell him all your story, Lucy. Do not look so sad.…Open passage →
  4. Chapter XI · paragraph 71…ted the other to Caspian: it still hangs in his Chamber of Instruments at Cair Paravel. But the Magician could tell them nothing about seas or lands further east. He did, however, tell them that abo…Open passage →
  5. Chapter XIII · paragraph 10… had never been seen, not even when Peter the High King kept his court at Cair Paravel. There were turkeys and geese and peacocks, there were boars' heads and sides of venison, there were pies shape…Open passage →
  6. Chapter XIV · paragraph 40…sts who were talking very loud about adventures on the day we sailed from Cair Paravel, and swearing they wouldn't come home till we'd found the end of the world. And there were some standing on the…Open passage →
  7. Chapter XIV · paragraph 47…eath the title of Dawn Treader to all his descendants and when we land at Cair Paravel on the homeward voyage he shall have either gold or land enough to make him rich all his life. Now--scatter ove…Open passage →
  8. Chapter XV · paragraph 15…d to ride out with falcons on our wrists when we were Kings and Queens at Cair Paravel long ago. And then they fly them--or I suppose I should say swim them--at the others. How----"Open passage →
  9. Chapter XV · paragraph 24"But we used to know them," said Lucy. "In the old days at Cair Paravel when my brother Peter was High King. They came to the surface and sang at our coronation."Open passage →
The Silver Chair9 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter III · paragraph 23"In the land of Narnia, at the King's castle of Cair Paravel."Open passage →
  2. Chapter III · paragraph 61…t across the lawn and then through an orchard and so to the North Gate of Cair Paravel, which stood wide open. Inside, they found a grassy courtyard. Lights were already showing from the windows of …Open passage →
  3. Chapter IV · paragraph 48They carried the dead Queen back to Cair Paravel, and she was bitterly mourned by Rilian and by the King, and by all Narnia. She had been a great lady, wise and…Open passage →
  4. Chapter IV · paragraph 50…denly the lady was gone, Drinian knew not where; and they two returned to Cair Paravel. It stuck in Drinian's mind that this shining green woman was evil.Open passage →
  5. Chapter V · paragraph 4… lighted window well above the ground; doubtless, in one of the towers of Cair Paravel. It made her long to be back in that delightful bedroom, snug in bed, watching the firelight on the walls. She …Open passage →
  6. Chapter V · paragraph 66…Scrubb had brought the one which had been left out for him in his room at Cair Paravel, but Jill had to be content with her knife. There would have been a quarrel about this, but as soon as they sta…Open passage →
  7. Chapter XV · paragraph 35…ace of all true kings of Narnia, who rule by the will of Aslan and sit at Cair Paravel on the throne of Peter the High King. Instantly every head was bared and every knee was bent; a moment later su…Open passage →
  8. Chapter XVI · paragraph 8… Centaurs have very kindly offered to let you ride on their backs down to Cair Paravel." He added in a lower voice. "Of course, you realise it is a most special and unheard-of honour to be allowed t…Open passage →
  9. Chapter XVI · paragraph 10"He's gone down to meet the King, his father, at Cair Paravel," answered the Faun, whose name was Orruns. "His Majesty's ship is expected in harbour any moment. It seems tha…Open passage →
The Last Battle14 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 1…e loved to live there simply and at ease, away from the state and pomp of Cair Paravel, the royal city. His name was King Tirian, and he was between twenty and twenty-five years old; his shoulders w…Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 33…g. "But while Jewel and I go forward, do you gallop as hard as you may to Cair Paravel. Here is my ring for your token. Get me a score of men-at-arms, all well-mounted, and a score of Talking Dogs, …Open passage →
  3. Chapter III · paragraph 5… stream, and shouted without slackening his pace, "Whither away, Sire? To Cair Paravel?"Open passage →
  4. Chapter IV · paragraph 32…of Winter, and after that they had reigned (all four of them together) at Cair Paravel, till they were no longer children but great Kings and lovely Queens, and their reign had been the golden age o…Open passage →
  5. Chapter IV · paragraph 37…me to me. Across the worlds I call you; I Tirian, King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Emperor of the Lone Islands!"Open passage →
  6. Chapter VI · paragraph 2…and meet the little army which Roonwit the Centaur would be bringing from Cair Paravel.Open passage →
  7. Chapter VIII · paragraph 22… eastward to meet the help which Roonwit the Centaur was bringing up from Cair Paravel and return against the Ape and his Calormenes in force. Tirian would very much like to have followed the first …Open passage →
  8. Chapter VIII · paragraph 34…the thunder of the great waterfall and hear what men spoke in whispers at Cair Paravel. He told how King Gale, who was ninth in descent from Frank the first of all Kings, had sailed far away into th…Open passage →
  9. Chapter IX · paragraph 2…d the lionskin, he sent him word to make ready his navy for the taking of Cair Paravel and all Narnia. Nothing now remains for us seven but to go back to Stable Hill, proclaim the truth, and take th…Open passage →
  10. Chapter IX · paragraph 37…d against Jewel's flank, slept as sound as if he were in his royal bed at Cair Paravel, till the sound of a gong beating awoke him and he sat up and saw that there was firelight on the far side of t…Open passage →
  11. Chapter XII · paragraph 45…n, and dressed in such clothes as he would have worn for a great feast at Cair Paravel. (But in Narnia your good clothes were never your uncomfortable ones. They knew how to make things that felt be…Open passage →
  12. Chapter XV · paragraph 32…up there I have seen it all--Ettinsmuir, Beaversdam, the Great River, and Cair Paravel still shining on the edge of the Eastern Sea. Narnia is not dead. This is Narnia."Open passage →
  13. Chapter XVI · paragraph 27…d been a little boy playing games with his father in the castle garden at Cair Paravel, just before bedtime on summer evenings. The very smell of the bread-and-milk he used to have for supper came b…Open passage →
  14. Chapter XVI · paragraph 37…esert and beyond it the great city of Tashbaan: to eastward she could see Cair Paravel on the edge of the sea and the very window of the room that had once been her own. And far out to sea she could…Open passage →
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PlaceNarnia

The central country of the chronicles, created by Aslan and inhabited by humans, Talking Beasts, Dwarfs, Fauns, centaurs, and many other peoples.

→GroupPevensie siblings

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, the four children who enter Narnia through the wardrobe and reign through its Golden Age.

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The sea east of Narnia, crossed by the Dawn Treader toward increasingly strange islands and the world’s edge.

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